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Larry King, the suspenders-sporting American Journalist, whose broadcast interviews with world leaders, movie stars and ordinary people helped define American conversation for a half-century has died on Saturday, January 23, 2021 at 87.
King was pronounced dead in the morning while receiving treatment at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, USA.
Though no cause of death has been announced, earlier this month it was reported that King had been hospitalised with COVID-19.
A longtime nationally syndicated radio host, from 1985 through 2010 he was a nightly fixture on CNN on “Larry King Live”, where he won many honors, including two Peabody awards.
With his celebrity interviews, political debates and topical discussions, King was not just an enduring on-air personality, he also set himself apart with the curiosity be brought to every interview, whether questioning the assault victim known as the “Central Park Jogger” or billionaire industrialist Ross Perot, who in 1992 rocked the presidential contest by announcing his candidacy on King’s show.
Talk show host legend Larry King lived a long and exciting life. https://t.co/0dMpLy8Hs3 pic.twitter.com/QPgmTTRUZW
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) January 23, 2021
